Wendy Mitchell: One Last Thing

Wendy Mitchell doesn’t fear anything anymore. After her diagnosis of young-onset dementia in 2014, all of Wendy’s old
fears melted away. What more was there to be afraid of when she faced her worst fear: losing her own mind?
While living with her diagnosis and facing the extreme changes that come along with a degenerative illness, Wendy wrote
two Sunday Times bestselling books, went skydiving for the first time and supports multiple dementia advocacy groups in
the UK. Just as she normalised conversations about living with dementia, Wendy wants to normalise conversations on
dying – to prepare herself and her loved ones for the end, and to appreciate the life she has left.
In One Last Thing, Wendy embarks on a journey to explore all angles of death: how we can best prepare for it, how
we talk about it with our loved ones, and how we must be empowered to make our own choices. Consulting experts
on the topic of assisted dying in the UK, those fighting to make it legal and those vehemently opposed to its practice,
Wendy reminds us that to get on with the business of living, we need to talk about death.